Look: Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Just Showed Up At The White House

Robert J. O’Neill, the former Navy SEAL who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on the terrorist’s compound in Pakistan six years ago, revealed on Twitter early Wednesday morning that he and his wife had dined at the White House with President Donald Trump the night before.

“Nice dinner with @jessical_oneill at 1600,” he wrote, referencing his wife, Jessica, whom he married last month. “@realDonaldTrump is a great host. #TheOperator”

The hashtag was a reference to his book, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior.

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Published in April, the book documents O’Neill’s upbringing, his career in the Navy SEALs and the firsthand details of how he killed bin Laden.

Though his dinner with Trump suggests they’re friends, O’Neill’s been both critical and defensive of the president’s administration over the past year.

In June, he slammed White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders after she praised the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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“I just heard @SarahHuckabee talk about ‘successes’ at the VA,” he wrote on Twitter at the time, according to Syracuse.com. “PLEASE explain and I would LOVE to debate you. VA is a damn insult to vets!! I’m a combat vet.. killed UBL.. and I PAY FOR PRIVATE healthcare ..most vets CANT afford it!”

Two months prior to that, he praised Trump for ordering the bombing of a Syrian airfield in response to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad having allegedly ordered his forces to use chemical weapons on his own citizens.

He said specifically Trump had effectively “hit the bully in the face,” while simultaneously raising troop moral.

“(It’s) good for them because now they have purpose,” told the hosts of Fox & Friends. “They know we have the ability to deter and you can stop force with force.”

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As of Thursday morning, neither the White House nor the president had confirmed that Trump did indeed have dinner with O’Neill and his wife Tuesday evening.

While it also remains unclear what they might have discussed, some have raised the possibility they talked about their mutual disgust for the NFL’s ongoing national anthem protests.

“Every widow I’ve talked to, every veteran I’ve talked to, regardless of what you say, you can’t take a knee for the national anthem and say, ‘But I support the troops,’” O’Neill said during an appearance on Fox News last month. “No, you don’t. Doesn’t matter what color you are when you’re in Afghanistan and get killed. You come back in red, white and blue.”